Zlib inflation

Andreas Raab andreas.raab at gmx.de
Thu Mar 8 19:03:07 UTC 2007


Use ZLibReadStream not InflateStream. InflateStream only implements the 
algorithm (LZ) not the actual file format (ZLib, GZ, Zip, etc).

Cheers,
   - Andreas

Brian Murphy-Dye wrote:
> I'm attempting to inflate a zlib compressed file. Performing:
> 
> (InflateStream on: ((FileDirectory default fileNamed: 'filename') 
> binary)) upToEnd
> 
> raises a bad block length error. John McIntosh's tiff support package in 
> squeakmap contains zlib support, but it reports 'no installer found for 
> package' (I'm using squeak 3.9.)
> 
>  Any recommendations for decompressing zlib files inside squeak?
> 
> Thanks, Brian.
> 
> 




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